Friday, October 10, 2014

Palestinian girls walk past the rubble of a building that was destroyed during the Israeli army summer's military offensive on the Gaza Strip, on Oct. 2, 2014, in Khan Younis (AFP/Said Khatib, File) UNRWA to make biggest ever Gaza aid plea

No wonder America's mainstream media shies away from more fully
covering the Israel-Palestine conflict... as all the world's eyes
are on Palestinian statehood, American's loudest activists for
Palestine are doing everything but promoting support for
Palestinian statehood.

I feel deep sorrow for all the children of Palestine, not just the
ones killed in and by the Israel-Palestine conflict, but also the
ones stuck living in the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict with
all its many dangers and negative ramifications.

Salaita is not stuck in stateless limbo.

Salaita has the freedom to find another job, whereas countless
Palestinians do not have that freedom.

Salaita is free to travel, and free to keep his own children safe
from Israeli bullets and bombs, whereas countless Palestinians do
not have that freedom.

Salaita is a grown man making his own choices, living in a safe
and secure, fully sovereign nation state where you are free to
speak out, but so is everyone else:

MAYBE Zionists once 'owned'
the conversation, and MAYBE Zionists did help prod the university
to reconsider the wisdom of hiring Salaita, but in the age of the
internet with blogs, online journals, comment sections, facebook,
tweets, and forwards Zionists most certainly do not own the
conversation, although they do tend to make many intelligent and
diplomatic contributions in many forums.